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Originally Posted by ButterCookie
I agree with you wholeheartedly. However, I think it was pretty normal to be even just a little homophobic in the 60s/70s right? Maybe not but it's nice to convince yourself.
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'60s & '70s? Open, flagrant homophobia was perfectly acceptable well into the '90s. They were still calling us "fags" in movies and song lyrics into the late '80s, at least.
Everyone loves Ellen now, but people were ready to burn her at the stake when she came out back in '97. She had a really hard time getting work for several years after that, yet now she's a bigger name than she ever was. And it's not because she went back into the closet, or "stopped flaunting her sexuality" or some such nonsense. Times have changed.
It would not surprise me if Christine, Mick, Lindsey, John, and even Stevie were at least a little homophobic well into the 1980s, if not later.